The new US crypto bill could settle the commodity-versus-security debate and reshape compliance, trading and innovation. Since its inception, the US cryptocurrency industry has faced a regulatory challenge: determining when a digital asset qualifies as a security and when it qualifies as a commodity. This uncertainty has hindered institutional adoption, fueled legal disputes and made it difficult for crypto companies to interpret complex rules. But a draft bill from the Senate Agriculture Committee, led by Chair John Boozman and Senator Cory Booker, proposes changes that may address this. Read more
Brazil isn’t buying Bitcoin for sovereign reserves. Instead, cities, corporates and B3 products are creating a regulated path to treasury use. Brazil’s moves are corporate and municipal, not sovereign. B3’s spot ETFs and resized 0.01-BTC futures let treasurers gain, size and hedge exposure using familiar tools. New VASP standards (licensing, AML/CFT, governance, security), effective February 2026, reduce operational uncertainty. Read more
The tokenized luxury resort development plan may set a “new benchmark” for tokenized real estate investment, said Eric Trump. The Trump Organization and London-listed luxury real estate developer Dar Global are debuting a tokenized luxury hotel development project in the Maldives, one of the world’s most exclusive holiday destinations. The Trump Organization and Dar Global are tokenizing the development of a luxury hospitality project, introducing an “unprecedented financial innovation,” according to a joint announcement on Monday. Unlike most tokenized real-estate projects, which fractionalize ownership of completed or near-completed properties, the initiative will allow investors to gain exposure at the earliest stages of development. Read more
EU lawmakers stripped out mandatory client-side message scanning from the latest Chat Control draft, but invasive age checks and voluntary scanning remain. European Union efforts to mandate scanning of private messages have been blocked again, marking another setback for the bloc’s proposed Chat Control legislation, and another win for digital rights activists. German digital rights activist and Pirate Party Germany politician Patrick Breyer wrote in a Nov. 15 X post that a backdoor, which he said mandated client-side scanning of messages, had been removed from the latest draft of the “Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse” proposal, more commonly known as Chat Control. According to him, the addition of the following line under the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU — which also saw the introduction of the backdoor clause — resolved the issue: The draft used vague language referring to “all possible risk mitigation measures,” which, according to critics, would allow authorities to force ...